Toward a Borderlands Ethics: The Undocumented Migrant and Haunted Communities in Contemporary Chicana/o Fiction

Autor/in	Ramirez, Pablo A.
Titel	Toward a Borderlands Ethics: The Undocumented Migrant and Haunted Communities in Contemporary Chicana/o Fiction
Quelle	In: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 35 (2010) 1, S.49-67 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-2604
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Democracy; Foreign Countries; Ethics; Migrants; Hispanic American Literature; Fiction; Undocumented Immigrants; Laws; Self Concept; Foreign Policy; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Demokratie; Ausland; Ethik; Migrantin; Fiktion; Illegaler Aufenthalt; Law; Recht; Selbstkonzept; Außenpolitik; USA
Abstract	By reading Helena Maria Viramontes's "Cariboo Cafe" and Daniel Chacon's "Godoy Lives," this essay argues that Chicana/o fiction articulates what I call a "borderlands ethics." Both Viramontes and Chacon give the undocumented migrant the power to merge the United States and Latin America, self and other, citizen and noncitizen. These mergers demonstrate how a borderlands ethical stance can produce new unauthorized truths and relations outside the law and beyond national borders. However, these stories of ghostly kinship also produce a political imperative: to resurrect borderlands relations and experiences in the public sphere. Through the trope of haunting and an engagement with a borderlands ethics, "The Cariboo Cafe" and "Godoy Lives" help us understand that maintaining a Latina/o ethnic identity is not a simple act of preservation; it is an ethico-political project that challenges the United States to form new visions of democracy and new relations with Latin America in order to maintain transborder communities and families. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10